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Today we're going to talk about science and religion. Big, big topics that have influenced our faiths for our whole lives. Studies show that Christians everywhere experience the tension between the two things. But is there really a conflict? Do we have to make a choice? Or can there be a harmony when these two ways of looking at the world align?The Next Book Club - Episode 15, June 2: "Why We Can't Wait" by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - (buy it here)FTF Book Club pageIntro - Nathan’s watch has lost its watchinessSteve & Nathan both frown on re-used sermon outlinesFavorite Science - What is your favorite kind of science?Nathan: Loves wastewater treatmentSteve: Loves immunology (right now)What’s with this (apparent) conflict between God & Science?The conflict is actually tribal/identity basedAristotle’s modes of persuasion - ethos, logos, pathosAnswers in GenesisDifferent Continuums - Addressing things with from logos doesn’t really workPathos is hugely important - it’s about identityFilm: Nacho LibreScience has been put on the same spectrum as religion“Christians should take a stand on six literal days, a young earth, and global flood even if it causes division.” - Ken Ham, Did Eve really have an Extra Rib?: And other tough questions about the Bible“We can't always trust what we see in museums, but we can certainly ALWAYS trust what we read in the Bible.” - Ken Ham, Did Eve really have an Extra Rib?: And other tough questions about the BibleScripture: “Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.”Hebrews “I think the world needs to wake up from its long nightmare of religious belief; and anything that we scientists can do to weaken the hold of religion should be done, and may in fact be our greatest contribution to civilization.” - Steven Weinberg, “Beyond Belief : Science, Religion, Reason and Survival”Science is consensus-based. It’s not a monolith.Materialism vs. Theism - Misunderstanding of the nature of God and the nature of scienceMaterialism: Stuff and things are all that existsTheism: There’s something spiritual out thereScientismTheismArticle: ‘Stephen Hawking: 'Heaven is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark’Science and religion address two different thingsThe God of the Gaps“The great delusion of modernity, is that the laws of nature explain the universe for us. The laws of nature describe the universe, they describe the regularities. But they explain nothing.” - Ludwig WittgensteinBook: God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?Article: “How Eric Metaxas went from Trump despiser to true believer”Video: John Lennox: The Question of Science and God - Part 1Video: John Lennox: The Question of Science and God - Part 2Book: “Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy” by Eric Metaxas Teleology Article: “The Relativity of Wrong” - Isaac AsimovBook: “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” by Thomas Kuhn Short Story: “The Man” in the book “The Illustrated Man” by Ray BradburyBook: “Perelandra” by C.S. LewisBook: “The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge” by Jean-Francois LyotardBook: “The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity”Georges Lemaître BioLogos Book: “The Language of God” by Francis CollinsRomans 1:20 Scot McKnight quote from this book: “How I Changed My Mind About Evolution: Evangelicals Reflect on Faith and Science”Word & World - John 1Acts God gave us his Word and his World, and they do not disagreeWe need Christians to be involved in scienceMoses had horns?Video: “God's Word, God's World” by BioLogos Join our Patreon - we'd love your support and we have some fantastic patron perks!Support Following the Fire
